Summer 2025 Transfer Window

[RicoS321]

3 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

We need a number 10, how about David Turnbull at Cardiff. Just been relegated to league one, cost them around 2 million, will they be cost cutting? Loan to buy or buy outright?? Would be a million plus but we were considering a million for okkels. Good player, needed position, and Scottish! Not sure he’d be ready to come back north but you never know.

Would be a great signing, especially if we finished third. However, I'm not actually sure what we're looking for in a number ten either. Are we looking for a McGrath replacement, or someone who can improve on the role that Gueye is performing? One of each? 

[OrlandoDon]

1 hour ago, RicoS321 said:

Would be a great signing, especially if we finished third. However, I'm not actually sure what we're looking for in a number ten either. Are we looking for a McGrath replacement, or someone who can improve on the role that Gueye is performing? One of each? 

Don’t know turbull’s style of play enough, is he a McGrath replacement or is he too similar to polvara??

[tlg1903]

Turnbull is under contract till 2027 so I'm not sure how feasible a deal would be relegation or not.  I also suspect his wages would be a big stumbling block It would be good business though, he's a great player.  As for style he's a proper no 10, he's very skillful on the ball and good for a goal.  

[BigAl]

Bizarre to say the least. 

This guy is only nineteen and got a full cap for Nigeria before his seventeenth birthday 

 

Goalkeeper Nathaniel Nwosu, who won a Nigeria cap in November 2022 but currently plays for Tayport in the Midlands League, is to join Aberdeen on trial this week having spent last week with St Johnstone and with Stoke City, St Mirren, Dunfermline Athletic and Dumbarton all monitoring the 19-year-old

[BigAl]

Scott Burns saying that we are not interested in him after all.

I guess if we were it would be to replace Tom Ritchie as third choice 

[RicoS321]

17 minutes ago, BigAl said:

Scott Burns saying that we are not interested in him after all.

I guess if we were it would be to replace Tom Ritchie as third choice 

To be honest, it seems like another case of a lad with a pushy agent, being punted across the UK. I'm assuming he's over here on a study visa or some such? I doubt Tayport would have got international clearance otherwise! Good luck to him, must be difficult for a young goalie in a foreign country, and more so given the route he appears to have taken. I suspect he'll face a lot of rejection on his path if he does every make it.

[Jute]

3 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

To be honest, it seems like another case of a lad with a pushy agent, being punted across the UK. I'm assuming he's over here on a study visa or some such? I doubt Tayport would have got international clearance otherwise! Good luck to him, must be difficult for a young goalie in a foreign country, and more so given the route he appears to have taken. I suspect he'll face a lot of rejection on his path if he does every make it.

Definitely something odd about this as only signed for Tayport at start of April. 

[BigAl]

Not sure he was ever realistically linked with us other than online by fans but we won't be signing Bobby Wales from a Kilmarnock as he has signed a PCA with Swansea City 

[Jute]

1 hour ago, BigAl said:

Not sure he was ever realistically linked with us other than online by fans but we won't be signing Bobby Wales from a Kilmarnock as he has signed a PCA with Swansea City 

Shame as looks a decent player and would have upped our Scottish quota. 

[BigAl]

As good a place as any to stick this:

Rubi is coming home in the summer 

Not quite sure where he'll fit into things to be honest.

[RicoS321]

7 minutes ago, BigAl said:

As good a place as any to stick this:

Rubi is coming home in the summer 

Not quite sure where he'll fit into things to be honest.

We need him back for the cup final so that he can nail that other good Japanese lad.

[Panda]

Celtic reportedly want to re-sign Ross Doohan. No doubt for their European quota.

He's out of contract in summer so sadly we can't demand an extortionate fee.

[Jute]

Not that bothered about losing Doohan other than leaves us really short of Scottish players if we make Europe. 

[RicoS321]

1 minute ago, Jute said:

Not that bothered about losing Doohan other than leaves us really short of Scottish players if we make Europe. 

Tom Ritchie on the bench. Mitov never gets injured anyway.

[Panda]

2 minutes ago, Jute said:

Not that bothered about losing Doohan other than leaves us really short of Scottish players if we make Europe. 

Presumably means Scott Bain leaving Celtic. Could do a swap for him.

[Jute]

7 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Tom Ritchie on the bench. Mitov never gets injured anyway.

Heard Ritchie has already been told he will be freed at end of season. 

[Jute]

8 minutes ago, Panda said:

Presumably means Scott Bain leaving Celtic. Could do a swap for him.

Guessing so but surely Bain will be wanting first team football which is not guaranteed at us……yes Rico I know Mitov has been made of glass this season. 

[BigAl]

Putting two and two together, could we be in for the nineteen year old Nigerian international keeper that was mentioned last week 

 

[BigAl]

Been thinking that Doohan being prepared to go back to The Tims as THIRD choice keeper justifies us not offering him a contract extension.

What a complete lack of ambition at this stage in his football life 

Enjoy your bank balance, doubt you'll play as many games again as you have this season.

Trust Jimmy will have someone lined up with a modicum of ambition and desire to push Mitov 

[Tyrant]

Doohan can go. Safe to say I won't be losing much sleep about that. 

[BigAl]

49 minutes ago, Tyrant said:

Doohan can go. Safe to say I won't be losing much sleep about that. 

Is correct mate.

Would need to look up the meaning of the word ambition in a dictionary 

[wee toon red]

Sitting on Celtic's bench or ours probably doesn't make much difference to a player, although their seats look a bit more comfy than ours. Has there been anything to suggest that Doohan actually wants to go?

Edited May 6, 2025 by wee toon red

[BigAl]

1 hour ago, wee toon red said:

Sitting on Celtic's bench or ours probably doesn't make much difference to a player.

Know what you mean, but he isn't actually likely to get a seat on Celtic's bench as he would more than likely going there as third choice.

To answer your second point, can't say I've seen him mention it anywhere 

[RicoS321]

2 hours ago, BigAl said:

Is correct mate.

Would need to look up the meaning of the word ambition in a dictionary 

I'm not sure it's lack of ambition to be honest. Maybe more like self awareness. If he knows that he doesn't have what it takes to reach the levels of our first team, then a payday for a couple of years is probably something that appeals. He might not get the opportunity again, and in a couple of years time, he'll still have age on his side to go and play for County or whoever for another 4-5 seasons and fight for a starting place. Goalie is a very unique position, it's completely different to some of the young players joining them to sit on the bench as we've seen in the past. Or maybe it isn't. But I think it is!

[BigAl]

Milanovic deal done according to reports in Australia this morning 

Wonder when we will.announce it ?

Presumably this will be subject to issuing of a work permit 

https://x.com/marcothejourno/status/1921824140345930170?s=19